Angelina Grimke

Angelina Grimke (21 February 1805-26 October 1879) was an American women's rights advocate and abolitionist. She was born into a wealthy planter family from Charleston, South Carolina, the daughter of John Faucheraud Grimke and the sister of Sarah Moore Grimke. The sisters moved to Philadelphia during the 1820s and became Quakers and abolitionists, and they supported women's rights to make speeches and participate in political action. She married prominent abolitionist Theodore Weld and lived with him in New Jersey, and she died in Hyde Park, Massachusetts in 1879.